The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-15
BRUASKlCK'S BREAK UP
STILL GATHERING FRUIT FROM
THE HINDMAN FERRY.
Samples OF RxtrsvagaJ ce, a Demand
for Investigation and the
Compliance.
OPENING WOUNDS INFLICTED ON
ACCOUNT OF THE
County Courts Liberal Disposition
OF Public Funds Entrusted
to Its Care.
TIE BOND.HUGHES FACTIONS IN
A FRIENDLY FIGHT.
Messrs. OyertOn, Porter and Duns.
comb Patiently Wade Through
One Side OF the Evidence.

On Saturday, April 18th, the AP
PSAL published an interview with Mr.
W. h Bond, an honest, intelligent
and leading citizen of Brunswick. il
the Eighth Civil District Of Shelby
county. The question of appropriate
irg $4,000 10 build the Hndmau
Ferry levee was occupying the atten.
ton Cf the Q. unity Court and people
at that time, and Mr.. Bond WAS ar
outspoken advocate Of scretiohary
retrenchment in the matter of spend.
ing the public funds. He cited. as
evidences of reckless extravaganza
TWO instance, in the vicinity OF Bruins.
wick. One of Them wss promi scuous
changing of roads aud bridge building
over HatChie river and small tributary
creeks, disgIam of which, with the
cast, was given. This was attributed
to Justice o. G. Hughes and a spsripg
ly signed petition. Two days later
Mr.. Bond, from his Brunswick home,
promptly and cheeIfally corrected the
statement that Mr.. Hughes was a
msgis rate at the time, saying 1t was a
natural inference Of the reporter from
the way he spoke of the justice, he
being a member OF the court at the
time the information wa ven. The
other instance was IS follows, quoting
from tbs interview:
Brunswick ia situated near tho
crossing Of the Memphis and Somer-
vile and old Brownsville reads. The
country in ftont of TIE town is billy,
and after rainy spell the water pours
down upon our properly, sometimes
coming in such volume as to cause
damage and Inconvenience. In order
to erect safegdsrd, Messrs. {. B. En-
glish, L Raynor, d q. Rittenhouse
snd myself raised 500 by subscrip.
tion to dig ditch and run the water
of into a creek near by. Justice
Hughes lives just back of Brunswick,
and his properly was injured as
much by the rains as ours, He said
to us that the county was spending
money for all these litt 9 improve.
ments, aud We might az well get it a.
anyone else, Just keep your money
he said, and I'll go to town and get
Sl00 from the court to have the work
DONE He kept his word, had the
ditch dug. and had three feet levee
thrown up dire city across the road be-
low town. This ruined the place, and
our people had 10 raife money enough
to tear down the levee and build q
bridge over the ditch" etc.
On Monday, April 18th, Mr.. James
M. Harris appeared in the County
Court, then in session, and delivered
himself as follows:
Gentlemen, my object in address
ing you is to cali your attention to a
most elanderous article in the daily
Memphis APPEAL OF saturday, the 10Th
instant, in which a member of your
wurshipful hody-Ju tics Hughes, oil
the E ghth Dlslrict-is made the sub
jeCt If an uDwaIrRnted and malic GUS
attack through the medium Of an al.
lsged interview with Mr.. Bond. The
APPEAL newspaper hes for number
Of years endeavored to dictate the
policy 10 be'puTsued by the Coun y
Court, resOriiug to abuses WI en- the
body has refused t. bs clerced. So
long as the APPEAL confined its vile
attacks and sspersions on the cDuri
ss body, you could stand them
and affOT d to treat them with the uu-
utteIable contempt of silence they de.
eeTvei, bnt when newspaper makes
libel Us charges against an individual
member, then 1t b. hooves that mem.
Der aud you, his Coleaguee,to demand
40 investigation of these charges,
which in this instance will prove false
and without the slightest foundation"
Mr. Harris then read the interview
with Mr.. Bond. After reading
the article Mr.. Harris denounced it.as
a base ess fabrication and an unmiti.
ga ed slauder, winding up with the
assertion that "no paI er pretending TO
d cency should be allowed to assail
the fair fame of q citizen without
more warrant than en- interv ew with
man that no one knows and no one
indorses." He then asked that COM
mittee of two magistrates and three
reputable citizens outside OF the Il ghth
District bs appointed to thoroughly
investigate the charges, and Justices
w. H. HuRhey and A, 4 Pope, of the
court, aGd Messrs. John Overton, jr
\. Ii. Dunsc1mb and DR., ID. T. Porter,
rs citizens, were appointed. Justice
Hughes sfterwsrd stated that he simply
Waoted his Gharact,r cleared, aud his
attorney pronounced the assertions Of
Mr.. Bond The vsporiDgs of a man,
indolsed by no one who knows him.